Woman Convicted in Theater Slashing

Published 12:51 pm, Monday, April 25, 2016

A woman was convicted of first-degree assault for slashing a teen-ager in the face with a razor because the youth had propped her feet on the back of a movie theater seat.

Angela L. Davis, 30, faces between five years and 25 years in prison for the Dec. 27, 2000, attack. She was ordered jailed Monday until her sentencing Feb. 21.

Davis was pregnant when she attacked Kotasia Robinson, 17, and Robinson's friend, Daniella Banks, 16, who tried to intervene. She fled the Tinseltown USA Theater in the Rochester suburb of Gates after the attack, and was arrested five months later, three days after she gave birth.

Robinson required eight hours of surgery and 400 stitches.

Robinson and Banks testified that they were watching "Dracula 2000" when Davis and two men entered the theater late. A quarrel broke out when one of the men told Robinson to take her feet off the seat so he could sit there.

As the theater emptied, Davis grabbed Robinson in a headlock and slashed her in the face, the teens said. Banks suffered cuts on her hand while trying to stop the attack.

Insisting she acted in self-defense, Davis testified that the teens jumped her.